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Researcher · Kyung Hee University · South Korea

Kwang Seok Ahn

Kwang Seok Ahn publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Oncology and Cancer Research, on topics such as Cytokine Signaling Pathways and Interactions, Natural product bioactivities and synthesis and Bioactive Compounds and Antitumor Agents.

ORCID 0000-0002-2882-0612 OpenAlex
World rank
#39,265
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Korea
#143
of 162,609
Works
427
Citations
24k
Citations per work
55.8
h-index
85
i10-index 323Top 0.5% in Molecular Biology
Kwang Seok Ahn

What does Kwang Seok Ahn research?

Kwang Seok Ahn's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (33%), Medicine (20%), Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (4%).

Everything else: 180 works · 42.2% of their workLife Sciences: 160 works · 37.5% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 142 works · 33.3% of their workMolecular Biology: 108 works · 25.4% of their workCancer Research: 34 works · 7.9% of their workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 18 works · 4.2% of their workPharmacology: 18 works · 4.2% of their workHealth Sciences: 87 works · 20.3% of their workMedicine: 87 works · 20.3% of their workOncology: 47 works · 11.1% of their workComplementary and alternative medicine: 20 works · 4.8% of their workEpidemiology: 19 works · 4.4% of their workTHEIR WORKKwang Seok Ahn427works
Life Sciences38%Health Sciences20%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
  1. Everything else18042.2%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology14233.3%
    2. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics184.2%
    1. Medicine8720.3%
  1. 1Molecular Biology25% of their works
  2. 2Oncology11% of their works
  3. 3Cancer Research8% of their works
  4. 4Complementary and alternative medicine5% of their works
  5. 5Epidemiology4% of their works
  6. 6Pharmacology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Kwang Seok Ahn's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Cancer, Apoptosis, Inflammation, IL-6, STAT3, Immunity, Reactive Oxygen Species and Signaling.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Cancer2345 topics
  2. Apoptosis1574 topics
  3. Inflammation1473 topics
  4. IL-6771 topic
  5. STAT3771 topic
  6. Immunity702 topics
  7. Reactive Oxygen Species672 topics
  8. Signaling672 topics
  9. Saponins631 topic
  10. Triterpenoids631 topic
  11. Quinones471 topic
  12. Toxicology471 topic
  13. NF-?B431 topic
  14. ubiquitination431 topic
  15. Pim Oncogenes341 topic
  16. Tumorigenesis341 topic
  17. Autophagy271 topic
  18. Disease271 topic
  19. PI3K/AKT pathway241 topic
  20. mTOR241 topic
  21. Bcl-2 Family201 topic
  22. Cell Death201 topic

Where does Kwang Seok Ahn work?

Kwang Seok Ahn's main affiliation in the publication record is Kyung Hee University, South Korea.

How many publications and citations does Kwang Seok Ahn have?

OpenAlex counts 427 works and 23,818 citations for Kwang Seok Ahn, an h-index of 85, ranking #39,265 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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